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Architects often explore the same organizational ideas for spatial relationships in floor plans over a variety of individual projects. John Geiger developed a classification system that applied 49 categories of floor plan to 174 Wright commissons that in his estimation reflected such design continuities. Only commissions with an assigned floor plan type appear in this search.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

House for Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Heller [Chicago, Illinois] (1896)

Drawing: Perspective from front left

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9606.007

Note: Drawing number assignments shown without question marks are compliant with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives drawing inventory as of 2011. Drawing number assignments with question marks may represent attempts by John Geiger to order chronologically Wright project drawings which appeared in publications or are held in other collections within the master sequence of the Wright Archives inventory.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: No type recorded.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; black ink; watercolor; "...tracing paper mounted to heavy grade art paper." Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1887-1901 (Volume 1)-10.
Drawing measurements: 30" x 10 1/2"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) This is an early study; the outside corners are pilastered, bays at front of living room and at dining room, a;most Gothic tracery at some windows, third story mostly solid walls. John W. Geiger 10/08/00

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 175, page 86] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1887-1901 (Volume 1) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 10] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).